Category: Ghana
National REDD Plus Technical Working Group (Ghana)
The National REDD Plus Technical Working Group is a multi-stakeholder body set up by the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources. The Committee is composed of 22 members representing different stakeholders and is chaired by the Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources. The tasks of the working group include to make policy recommendations to the Minister for Lands and Natural Resources on any relevant strategies that could form a sound basis for a National REDD-Plus policy or...
Forestry Research Institute of Ghana
The Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG) is responsible forest and forest products research to ensure sustainable management and utilization of Ghana’s forest resources and disseminate the information for the improvement of the social, economic and environmental well-being of the Ghanaian people. The FORIG also has a goal of conducting collaborative research across disciplines among its scientists, stakeholders and external Institutions. In REDD implementation, FORIG is involved in the...
The Forestry Commission of Ghana
The Forestry Commission of Ghana is responsible for the regulation of utilization of forest and wildlife resources, the conservation and management of those resources and the coordination of policies related to them. The Commission embodies the various public bodies and agencies that were individually implementing the functions of protection, management, the regulation of forest and wildlife resources. The Forestry Commission is divided into divisions responsible for Forest Services, Wildlife,...
Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources (Ghana)
The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources is entrusted with the Management of Ghana's land, forests, wildife and mineral Resources. The Ministry ensures the sustainable management of lands through the implementation and coordination of policies and programmes, the promotion of inter-agency linkages and cooperation, the promotion of community participation in land and mineral resources, to review existing legislation and policies, to promote institutional capacity and capability at all levels...
A Rocha (Ghana)
A Rocha is a project managed by Climate Stewards with the aim of investing in small-scale tree-planting programmes in the area of Kumasi in central Ghana and Damongo in the drier North of the country. Climate Stewards funds the materials, management, and training for community and student participation, with best practice rewarded. The involvement of the wider community will ensure the success of the project as families, churches and businesses see the social, economic and...
Forest, Climate & Communities Alliance (Ghana)
The Rainforest Alliance and USAID are improving the forest management skills of local communities, increasing the number of sustainably managed forestry operations, and helping local people increase their involvement in REDD activities. Project activities include community capacity building, technical assistance for SFM, REDD activities and strategies, meeting sustainability standards, build market linkages and long-term commercial sourcing relationships and monitoring and...
National Forest Plantation Development Programme (Ghana)
The National Forest Plantation Development Programme (NFPDP) was launched in September 2011 by the Government of Ghana at Ayigbe in the Wenchi District of the Brong-Ahafo Region. The aim of the programme is encouraging the development of a sustainable forest resource base that will satisfy future demand for industrial timber and enhance environmental quality thereby reducing pressure on existing natural forest. The programme objectives include restoring the forest cover of...
Bobiri Forest Area (Ghana)
The Bobiri Forest Area project in the Juaben District of Ghana aims to inventorise and spatially map forest-based carbon stocks with the intention of reducing deforestation and land degradation in high risk areas. The project further aims to contribute towards national level efforts in achieveing REDD-readiness. The outcome of the study includes the development of an effective country-specific methodology for estimating national emission reference levels under the REDD readiness...
Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) Readiness Grant Project (Ghana)
The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) is supporting Ghana to design a socially and environmentally sound national strategy to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). The project will support Ghana in to advance it's REDD+ readiness process with the support of selected key activities identified in the Ghana’s Readiness Preparation Proposal (R-PP). The project will assist in establishing the key pillars of REDD+ readiness,...
